Reinaldo Arenas and the Cultural Canon: Queer Intertextuality and Rewriting the Self - Couverture rigide

Willis, Angela L.

 
9781683406556: Reinaldo Arenas and the Cultural Canon: Queer Intertextuality and Rewriting the Self
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ISBN 10 : 1683406559 ISBN 13 : 9781683406556
Editeur : University Press of Florida, 2026

Synopsis

Exploring how Reinaldo Arenas reimagined literary classics as queer, subversive parodies that undermine oppressive power

This book offers a fresh reading of the work of Reinaldo Arenas, showing how the Cuban writer reimagined literary and visual classics as parodies that challenge oppressive power structures. Incorporating his own life experiences, Arenas transformed canonical figures, genres, and narratives into carnivalesque intertexts that dismantle dominant ideologies. By queering Cuba’s past and present, this book shows, Arenas’s works offer a creative blueprint for resistance.

Angela Willis demonstrates how Arenas drew heavily on established sources—repurposing early texts on the Spanish Inquisition, mimicking novels set on colonial Cuban plantations by José Lezama Lima and Cirilo Villaverde, and engaging with visual works such as Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights. Taking a comparativist, intertextual approach, this book offers new ways to explore the texts Arenas parodies. It also discusses two overlooked pieces by Arenas—an unfinished film script of Lezama Lima’s Paradiso and a key essay on “avant-garde” narrative—along with the original manuscript and audio tapes linked to the writer’s autobiography, Antes que anochezca (Before Night Falls). The close readings and little-known archival materials in this book provide new insights into Arenas’s artistic dissidence.

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À propos de l'auteur

Angela L. Willis, professor of Hispanic studies and Latin American studies and assistant dean of educational policy at Davidson College, is coauthor of The Dissidence of Reinaldo Arenas: Queering Literature, Politics, and the Activist Curriculum.

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Éditeur
University Press of Florida
Date d'édition
2026
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1683406559
ISBN 13 
9781683406556
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
294
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ISBN 10 :  1683406249 ISBN 13 :  9781683406242
Editeur : University Press of Florida, 2026
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